Lament for the Fallen

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TitleLament for the Fallen
Year for Search2015
AuthorsChait, Gavin
Pagination382 pp.
Date Published2015/2016
PublisherDoubleday/Transworld Publishers
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsMale author, South African author, UK author
Annotation

The novel is set in a West African community when a space craft crashes nearby with a human-like being who has escaped from Tartarus, “a place where hope doesn’t exist” (back cover). As he heals, he helps his rescuers to a better life, but of course complications arise. A novel set after Lament for the Fallen and with some of the same characters is Usan Abasi’s Lament, available at https://gavinchait.com/w/X3zHq2t7da4e/.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. London: Black Swan/Transworld Publishers, 2017.

Originally published in 2015 as an ebook entitled Tartarus Falls. Np: Qwyre Publishers.

Info Notes

Lament for the Fallen is the title used on the author’s website.
Title Note

Originally published in 2015 as an ebook entitled Tartarus Falls. Np: Qwyre Publishers.

Holding Institutions

CSt, NLS
Author Note

The author was born in South Africa and immigrated to the UK about 2008.
Full Text

2015 Chait, Gavin (b. 1974). Lament for the Fallen. London: Doubleday/Transworld Publishers, 2016. 382 pp.; and London: Black Swan/Transworld Publishers, 2017. 430 pp. Originally published in 2015 as an ebook entitled Tartarus Falls. Np: Qwyre Publishers. Lament for the Fallen is the title used on the author’s website. CSt, NLS

The novel is set in a West African community when a space craft crashes nearby with a human-like being who has escaped from Tartarus, “a place where hope doesn’t exist” (back cover). As he heals, he helps his rescuers to a better life, but of course complications arise. A novel set after Lament for the Fallen and with some of the same characters is Usan Abasi’s Lament, available at https://gavinchait.com/w/X3zHq2t7da4e/. The author was born in South Africa and immigrated to the UK about 2008.